Buying ticket on the train

tammy

Hi, I'm heading to Galway very early in the morning. Just wondering if you can still buy tickets on the train. I rang Ianroid Eireann and they said you couldn't if the ticket office was open!!

jjbrien

yes you can there still is a conductor there

MarkoP11

If the ticket office is closed you are permitted by law (SI 109 1984) to board the train and are required to pay the person selling tickets or at your destination if you could not pay onboard. If the booking office is open you must have a ticket

SI 109 1984 wrote:

4. Where the Board gives notice that a station is unattended or the booking office is closed, or where any person is instructed by an authorised person to board a train at a station without purchasing a ticket at the booking office so as not to delay the departure of the train from the station, any person not in possession of a valid ticket entitling him or her to travel may enter a vehicle at that station for the purpose of travelling but that person must obtain a ticket or other authority from an authorised person on the train as soon as practicable after entering any vehicle or from an authorised person on arrival at the station to which such person is travelling by the train.

Thats the law, you have nothing to be worried about, but it is against the law to board without a ticket if you jumped on since you arrived too late the queue was miles long unless you have been instructed to do so

Chris_533976

Yeah someone on the Cobh train awhile back ran past the (open) ticket office towards the train to try and get onboard just when it was about to leave. They wouldnt let him on.

Basicially if the ticket office is open, buy your ticket there.
If the ticket office is NOT open, get on the train and buy the ticket there when the inspector comes round. But for gods sake dont give him huge notes. Try and have it correct, or nearly correct moneywise.

Red Alert

British Rail used to have a Permit to Travel thing to show your intention to pay.